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Emanuel County Airport, also known as East Georgia Regional Airport, serves the Swainsboro area of east-central Georgia with a single long, lit hard-surface runway and an ILS approach, making it a useful all-weather stop for general aviation and business traffic in this otherwise rural corner of the state. The field is city-operated and offers fuel, hangarage and pilot facilities to visiting aircraft.
Emanuel County Airport sits just outside Swainsboro in east-central Georgia and is also known as East Georgia Regional Airport. It is a city-operated general aviation field built around a single substantial runway equipped with an instrument landing system, which makes it a capable diversion or destination for both light aircraft and corporate traffic in a part of the state with few other instrument-capable airports. For the simulator pilot it offers a straightforward rural approach with a genuine ILS to fly, plus the character of a small-town municipal airport with hangars and fuel services on the field.
The airport lies near Swainsboro in Emanuel County, Georgia. Radio work is conducted on a common traffic advisory frequency shared with UNICOM, and Atlanta Center provides overlying centre services on 135.55 MHz, consistent with operation in uncontrolled airspace typical of small regional fields in this area.
The airport has one physical runway, 14/32, a hard-surfaced strip 6,011 feet long. It is lit for night operations, and runway 14 is served by an instrument landing system, giving the field a precision approach not commonly found at airports of this size.
Weather is available via an AWOS-3 automated observing system on 133.375 MHz. Traffic advisories and UNICOM calls are made on the combined CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.975 MHz, and Atlanta Center can be reached on 135.55 MHz for centre services such as flight following.
The airport is run by the City of Swainsboro and continues to be upgraded, with facilities including T-hangars, corporate hangars, aviation fuel, ground power service, ground air conditioning service, a pilot's lounge, wireless internet and up-to-date weather reporting for visiting pilots.